Gay Dallas Cowboys player Jeff Rohrer will marry his boyiend - Outsports

Contents:

• JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED
• MICHAEL SAM, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER IS GETTG HCHED!
• GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• 20 INSPIRG GAY AND LBIAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) PLAYERS
• JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED

Retired NFL lebacker Jeff Rohrer is gay and set to bee the first former or current NFL player a same-sex marriage, he revealed a new terview published on Wednday.

MICHAEL SAM, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER IS GETTG HCHED!

Said Rohrer, “If I had told the Dallas Cowboys the 1980s that I was gay, I would have been cut immediately. He told the Tim, “People are born gay, as I was, though beg gay was jt somethg that had no place durg the urse of my football life. Michael Sam (pictured left), the first NFL player to publicly e out as gay, is reportedly gettg married to longtime love, Vo Cammisano (pictured right), acrdg to TMZ.

GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY

Unfortunately for the 25-year-old athlete, his g out as a gay player the NFL reportedly may have jeopardized his playg reer. ”The kdns of my iends and my fay and my teammat” he said, his voice tremblg, psg between words, dog everythg he uld to exprs the sudn joy that enveloped his new gay life. He had never, while he was playg the NFL for the Cowboys or at any pot durg his marriage to his wife, dated men, had a boyiend or had any kd of gay experience.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

For an after-work cktail at the popular gay Wt Hollywood waterg hole, Tortilla Republic. “My experience is that people are born gay, and anyone who wants to dispute that I’d be happy to have a nversatn wh them, cludg Mike Pence.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

Dpe the perceptn, Rohrer isn’t sure he ever heard a gay slur the Cowboys locker room. In that nversatn The Playmaker said he believed that if a teammate had e out as gay to the rt of the Cowboys the 1990s, they would have accepted him and moved on. Whether or not there were gay slurs thrown around the locker room, there is a machismo virtually every football locker room that seems to send an unspoken msage exudg heterosexism.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

In the 1970s we know that multiple Washgton football players – Dave Kopay, Jerry Smh, Ray McDonald – were gay, and that some of their teammat knew about them. Var Hoton Oilers om the early 1990s have spoken publicly about knowg or assumg that at least two of their teammat were gay.

20 INSPIRG GAY AND LBIAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) PLAYERS

At a time when acceptance of gay people is at an all-time high, there are still rners of our culture where homophobia ns rampant. Beyond fdg a happs he never thought possible for himself, he now has the opportuny to break to the dark rners of that culture where anti-gay sentiment fters. If was hard to not like him when he was straight and married to a woman, for those very same people will now be hard to not like him now that he’s gay and marryg a man.

Until jt this year he uldn’t get his head around the ia that this extend fay would ever accept him as a gay man.

JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. The subject was the impact of Carl Nassib g out as gay the NFL for the Las Vegas Rairs.

Matea offensive leman Jake Strer, who is gay, is one of five current or former LGBTQ athlet profiled.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

“When I returned to football my sophomore year after g out was bee I knew that if I qu football was jt the begng of thgs I would qu or hold myself back om bee I was gay, ” Strer told Outsports. “To fast forward to my last football game my senr year and have end wh ‘NFL 360’ there to clu me a story celebratg the first openly gay football player NFL history is still really unbelievable to me. EST, we see scen of Strer’s last game as a Matea Mtang, terspersed wh him speakg about beg gay football and what Nassib’s g out meant to him.

Their experienc are universal, ways good and bad, for many LGBTQ people — Pick talkg about the pa om the ial rejectn by her mom; O’Callaghan discsg suicidal thoughts before beg rcued by a therapist; Rapoport’s touchg rellectn of g out to NFL Commissner Roger Gooll by approachg him at a Super Bowl event holdg her girliend’s hand and Gooll’s se upon seeg ; Saffold discsg growg up Black and gay on the South Si of Chigo “where there are rampant levels of homophobia” and Strer on how he ed to worry “about how bad my life might be after I me out.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

“I thk 11- or 12-year-old kids playg football prr to Carl Nassib g out didn’t thk there uld be a gay football player, ” Rapoport said.